MOVIE REVIEWS: THE BANK JOB

The critics are reserving their loudest applause for The Bank Job, the film least likely to perform well in its opening this weekend. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times calls it a "wham-bam caper flick." Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times concludes that while the film "dawdles" at times, the "real fun comes as nearly every genre convention unravels in one clever way or another." Claudia Puig in USA Today enthuses: "Well-paced, smartly told and unpretentious, this solid British heist thriller also has moments of invention and imagination." And Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News employs British understatement to sum up: "It's quite satisfying."


07/03/2008